Facilitated Tabletop Games in a Mediated Environment

Tabletop games that require the aid of a human facilitator are typically designed for a physical environment. However, during the COVID-19 pandemic, lockdown measures prevented people from gathering. Therefore, tabletop games were sometimes played and facilitated in a mediated environment using online communication tools instead. But this...

The Context Dependency of Two Popular Persuasive Game Design Principles

This paper explores the context dependency of two popular persuasive game design principles in order to improve their effective implementation. Because of limited guidelines the choice and suitability of a persuasive game design principle is often based on a designer’s own intuition. To prevent the use of badly chosen design principles that can...

Reinforcing the Attitude-Behavior Relationship in Persuasive Game Design: Four Design Recommendations for Persuasive Games for Societal Interventions

Persuasive games for societal interventions aim to shape, reinforce<br/>or change players’ attitudes and behavior to help solving complex societal<br/>issues. In earlier work, we explored how persuasive game mechanics may<br/>contribute to the formation of attitudes in persuasive games. As a follow-up, this paper presents four design...

Addressing Challenges of Planning in Multimodal Transportation Nodes with Simulation Games

Global transportation knows many different modalities – goods arrive from far away places by ship, plane, railway, or truck. Airports and seaports both represent important nodes within the global transportation network. Both show distinct characteristics, but also similarities when it comes to challenges like required flexibility, robustness,...